The man behind one of Steam's most controversial games is back

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There are few video game developers who are treated with as much skepticism as The War Z executive producer Sergey Titov.
His zombie apocalypse MMO-shooter/DayZ clone launched to dreadful reviews by critics and players alike, but that was the least of its problems. Its Steam page promised features that hadn't yet been implemented. Titov offered an oft ridiculed apology for this where he downplayed the false advertising as players "misreading" the game's description. This was followed up by the developer announcing two more games (Romero's Aftermath and the just released Shattered Skies) that looked eerily analogous to his infamous flop. Unsurprisingly, Titov's name wasn't a selling point on any of these games, yet sleuths discovered his fingerprints popped up on a total of four enigmatic companies behind these seemingly similar titles. It all seemed more than a little sketchy.
Yet Titov is adamant he's grown a lot since the unpleasantness of The War Z's launch dragged his name through the mud. To explain his side of the story, Titov offered us a no holds barred interview about, well, pretty much everything; the backlash against his former games, the criticism against him personally, and why anyone should believe him going forward.
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